Newsletter of the Oceanic Engineering Society · 2020. 5. 12. · Newsletter of the Oceanic Engineering Society MARCH 2018, Volume 7, Number 1 (USPS 025-095) ISSN 2164-8042

Newsletter of the Oceanic Engineering Society

MARCH 2018, Volume 7, Number 1 www.ieeeoes.org (USPS 025-095) ISSN 2164-8042

IEEE OCEANIC ENGINEERING SOCIETY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

PresidentCHRISTIAN DE [email protected]

Vice PresidentTechnical ActivitiesMALCOLM [email protected]

Vice PresidentProfessional ActivitiesJIM [email protected]

Vice President Workshops & SymposiaPHILIPPE [email protected]

Vice PresidentOCEANSDIANE [email protected]

SecretaryMARINNA [email protected]

TreasurerELIZABETH L. [email protected]

Journal Editor-in ChiefMANDAR [email protected]

Junior Past PresidentRENÉ [email protected]

Senior Past PresidentJERRY C. [email protected]

The OES BEACON is published four times a year as a benefit to the membership of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society. The OES Beacon is printed and distributed from IEEE headquarters in New York City, New York, USA.

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Welcome to OCEANS ’18 Kobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CoverFrom the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3From the OES BEACON Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Member Benefits—Did You Know? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Vice President for Technical Activities Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Vice President for Workshops & Symposia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5From the EIC’s Desk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Request for Nominations for DTAA and DSA 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8PLOCAN Glider School - November 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Ad. on AUV2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Chapter News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Ad. on Baltic Symposium 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19Ad. on OTC2018, Houston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Ad. On OTCAsia 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21Ad. on ATC2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22Welcome to Kobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22Ad. on OCEANS Conferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24Blast from the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Ad. on OCEANS ’18 Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26Ad. on OCEANS ’19 Marseille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27Earthzine Writing Fellowship Dives into the Ocean, One Story at a Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27The French Cable Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30Bringing It All Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31New AdCom members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34Member Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36Who’s who in the OES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38Welcome New and Reinstated Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40From new chair of the Student Activities Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40Attention OES Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42Ad. on OCEANS ’18 Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cover

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Did you know?The Administrative Committee (AdCom) of

the Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) com-prises 18 members elected by the OES member-ship (Associate and higher membership grades numbering 1,539 as of January 31, 2018), and 10 members of the Executive Committee elected by AdCom. ExCom meets 3 times per year, usually in the turbulent wake of the IEEE-wide Technical Activities Board (TAB) meetings held in Febru-ary, June, and November. AdCom meets twice a year, usually in conjunction with an OCEANS conference.

What have these 28 folks done for OES lately? In 2016, ExCom established a 10-year strategic plan that was approved by AdCom in September 2016. In 2017, ExCom and AdCom successfully overcame a 200k USD reduction in income to fin-ish the year with a slightly positive cash flow. In addition, ExCom and AdCom modified the OES Bylaws to streamline the management of conferences, workshops, and symposia organized or co-organized by OES. As a result, since January

20, 2018, OES has a Vice President for OCEANS, who oversees all aspects of the twice-yearly OCEANS conferences co-organized with the Marine Technology Society, and a Vice President for Workshops and Symposia, who oversees all such events in which OES takes an active role. We have now reached the critical implementation phase, while still on the budgetary diet plan started in 2017—stay tuned!

What can you do to help run OES? Perhaps the easiest way to become involved (a few min-utes of your time) is to vote in the yearly OES

elections for 6 AdCom members who serve a 3-year term of office. OES needs a diverse representation of its membership on AdCom, so you may help also by nominating yourself, or a qualified and willing colleague, to run for AdCom. Nomina-tions must be submitted to the Chair of the OES Nominations and Appointments Committee ([email protected]) by March 1. A nomination includes a one-page biographical sketch and a

From the President

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4 IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Newsletter, March 2018

Welcome to the March 2018 issue of the Beacon. And, once again, we’d like to thank all of the contributors to our quarterly newsletter. As you can see by the content, this is your newsletter, and we try to cover all aspects of the society activities from our workshops, symposia and conferences to what our individual members, chapters and committees are up to. And, don’t forget, all issues of the Beacon are available on the OES website.

Our last issue, the biggest to date, covered the OCEANS ’17 Anchorage conference, to include the Student Poster competi-tion results, society awards and a large number of member, committee and chapter reports. And this issue will continue with our OCEANS events and will be available at the OCEANS ’18 Kobe conference. Be sure to read the Welcome to Kobe article.

The chapter activity has certainly been picking up as report-ed by Malaysia, Singapore, India and Providence chapters in addition to the new UKRI chapter. Holding an Offshore Tech-nology Conference, which OES co-sponsors, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, every two years certainly helps keep things active in that area. This year’s event is set for 20–23 March.

Besides our many ads that provide details on upcoming con-ferences and events, our new Vice President for Workshops and Symposia (VPW&S), Philippe Courmontagne, provides details on many events planned for this year. And for those of you who

present technical papers, with a goal of being eventually pub-lished in the OES Journal of Oceanic Engineering, be sure to review the list of papers by your peers that are now available on line prior to publication in upcoming issues of the JOE. And, we continue our Who’s Who in the OES with an article by John Wat-son, two-time chair of OCEANS Aberdeen (thanks John) and our newest chair of the Student Poster Competition.

Brandy Armstrong, our new Student Activities chair pro-vides the latest update and invitation to participate to include getting involved in our OES social media efforts, an area where the society is working hard to expand and optimize. Stay in touch with Brandy to stay informed on our upcoming efforts to provide financial support to our student chapters to include travel for selected students to our OCEANS conferences.

There is a wealth of other information and articles in this issue that we hope you enjoy. And, as always, we’ll close by inviting you to participate in your society. Submit articles and material for the Beacon. Or . . . volunteer for other society activities as a participant or an elected officer. It’s your society and it is here to help you reach your professional goals. Enjoy.

Member DiscountsIEEE members can take advantage of exclusive and discounted pricing on insurance and a variety of products and servic-es (where available) that can add up to substantial savings. Discover what IEEE Member Discounts can offer you. Visit the IEEE website at:

https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/discounts/index.html

OES AwardsDid you know all of the past winners of OES awards are listed on our website? As you’ll see in this issue, we’re looking for nominations for this year’s awards. You can find past winners at the following link:

http://ieeeoes.org/page.cfm/cat/64/Honors-and-Honorees/And, get involved in OES and you may be a future award

winner.

From the OES BEACON Editors

Member Benefits—Did You Know?

Harumi Sugimatsu and Robert Wernli

EiC Harumi Sugimatsu and team on her latest AUV expedition to #5 Takuyo Seamount.

Sandy Williams, former OES VP for Conference Development and your Beacon Co-EiC, and former OES VP for Professional Activities, toast their friends at their final ExCom meeting last

November.


What is the biggest conference that you have been to? For me it was the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston last year—with over 64,000 attendees and 2,470 trade exhibitors. You need GPS naviga-tion to get around the place. This year OTC Houston will be celebrat-ing 50 years.

OTC has expanded into several other events around the world. There is a biennial OTC Asia. This

is ‘little brother’ to OTC Houston with only 30,000 attendees, and will be held on 20–23 March 2018. Also this year, the Arc-tic Technology Conference (which is an OTC spin-off) will be held in Houston on 5–7 November 2018. And OTC Brazil is scheduled for Rio de Janeiro in 2019.

While OCEANS is the premium conference for OES, the OTC series are a significant part of our technical activities and, as I write this, preparations are in place for an OES led Panel Session on AUV technology, and a Metocean Special Session at the OTC Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur in March.

If you are attending any of these OTC events, please be sure to check the box on the registration form to show that you are an OES member—there are rewards for this.

VPTA ReportMalcolm Heron, OES Vice President for Technical Activities

Jerry Carroll (Senior Past President) currently manages OTC matters for OES. Here he is in the Exhibition Booth talking to a

prospective student member. Photo M. Heron.

By the way of loans to support the startup of a conference/workshop/symposium, or grants to support student partici-pation or to bring key-note speakers, IEEE OES is involved in sev-eral upcoming events as a co-sponsor. But a co-sponsoring is not only a question of financial

sponsorship, it is a question too of members participation. So we highly recommend or encourage you to participate in the follow-ing conferences/workshops/symposia as authors or attendees.

SAUVC 2018—9–12 March 2018, SingaporeAutonomous underwater robotics is an exciting challenge in engi-neering, which students get to experience at SAUVC. The com-

petition is a great learning ground for students to experience the challenges of AUV system engineering and develop skills in the related fields of mechanical, electrical and software engineering.

The competition also features workshops and lectures from world renowned experts in the field of marine robotics and autonomous underwater systems to inspire students with new ideas and techniques to solve challenges and build an interest in careers related to marine robotics.

This competition exists for 5 years now. For this edition, 30 teams coming from Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indo-nesia, Malesia, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand are competing together.

More than a competition, SAUVC 2018 will be the place to learn from prestigious speakers:

Tom Curtin (Senior Principal Research Scientist at the University of Washington): Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competitions.

Roland Bouffanais (Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design): Swarming technology

From the Vice President for W&SPhilippe Courmontagne, Vice President for W&S


for pervasive monitoring of the marine environment.

Hayato Kondo (Associate Professor at the Tokyo Uni-versity of Marine Science and Technology): AUV develop-ment during the last decade.

William J. Kirkwood(Senior Research and Devel-opment Engineer at the Mon-terey Bay Aquarium Research

Institute): Competitions, Workshops, Conferences and Mem-bership: How they can advance your Maritime Career?

Baltic International Symposium—12–15 June 2018, Klaipeda, Lithuania

The event will be hosted by Klaipeda University and Bal-tic Valley Association. This will be the fourth time the Symposium has been in Klai-peda and has always received great support from the Lithu-anian government and the U.S. Embassy.

The program will include plenary talks by experienced

lecturers, oral and poster presentations, round table discus-sions, and a field trip to the UNESCO Natural Heritage Site—Curonian Spit. Basic topics for the Symposium will be Energy Security and Independence, Hazard Planning and Mitiga-tion, Handling of the Extensive Ammunition and Ordi-nance that have been disposed of in the Baltic Sea and Ecosys-tems and Socio-Economic Impacts.

Klaipeda has hosted the IEEE/OES Baltic Symposium in 2004, 2006, 2012 and now returns for the fourth time in 2018, when about 150 anticipated participants will come and join this event for the four intensive Symposium days.

For this 7th IEEE/OES Baltic Symposium “Clean and Safe Baltic Sea and Energy Security for the Baltic coun-tries”, the important dates are:

February 23, 2018: deadline for abstract submission;April 25, 2018: deadline for registration and full research

paper submissionJune 4, 2018: final announcement (including programme)

International Symposium on Industrial Electronics—12–15 June 2018, Cairns, Australia

The conference will provide a forum for discussions and pre-sentations of advancements in knowledge, new methods and technologies relevant to indus-trial electronics, along with their applications and future developments.

Several current and upcoming frontier technologies, innova-tive solutions, research results, as well as enterprises related to industrial electronics and their applications will be presented. Several well-known academic and industrial experts will deliver the plenary and keynote talks.

It is too late to submit an abstract or propose a special ses-sion, but not too late to register (Early bird registration: 15 March, 2018)

OSES 2018—4–6 July 2018, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

OSES2018 expands its lead in the sustainable advancement of integrated coastal/offshore energy systems. In its 5th and largest iteration, OSES2018 Ningbo builds on the well-known and expanding OSES Event legacy established in Windsor, Edinburgh, Malta, and Cape Cod. Leading industrial, policy, and academic professionals will converge to challenge convention. Offshore Energy Generation and Storage Technology, Environmental Inte-gration, Policy, and Expanding Global Markets will be a priority. Cleaner and smarter energy systems mean sustainable economic growth. Offshore Energy and Storage capitalizes on the tremen-dous resource opportunities associated with coastal regions. Over half the world lives near the coast. Its energy should too.

Since its inception in 2014, the OSES conference has become the leading annual forum for the revelation and examination of new thinking in the space of offshore energy systems. Join OSES2018 to help set the new ambition for offshore energy.

The deadline for abstract submission was 16 February 2018, but it is not too late to register!

Ucomms—28–30 August 2018, Lerici, ItalyThe mission of the UComms conference series is to promote the development of a deep understanding of the propaga-tion of communication signals underwater and the perfor-mance of higher layer proto-cols with the objective of sup-porting the intelligent choice of

network-wide standards, as a foundation for interoperability.UComms’18 is the fourth conference of the series organised

by the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimenta-tion (CMRE) and is open to scientists and engineers involved in research, development, implementation and use of underwa-ter communication systems.


The conference topics cover the full range of interests from physical understanding of the communication channels (acoustic optical, radio) through to network protocols and experimentation.

The 2018 edition of the UComms conference will follow the model adopted for the 2016 edition that was itself an evolution from the previous two meetings held in 2012 and 2014. The con-ference series is focused on working towards a deep understand-ing of the propagation of communication signals underwater and

the performance of necessary higher-level protocols with the objective of supporting the intelligent choice of network-wide standards, as a foundation for interoperability.

If you want to participate in this event, do not miss the dead-line for submissions: 23 March 2018.

Do not forget IEEE OES exists to serve you, but only your participation in events can allow the society to fulfill its mission!

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Early Access PapersCongratulations to the authors of our most recent-ly approved papers for the IEEE JOE. The follow-ing papers were published as Early Access papers on IEEE Xplore and will appear in regular issues soon. You’ll find these papers now:

“Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys,” by A. Purser, Y. Marcon, S. Dreutter, U. Hodge, B. Sablotny, L. Hehemann, J. Lemburg, B. Dorschel, H. Biebow, and A. Boetius

“Performance of Multibeam Echosounder Backscatter-Based Classification for Monitoring Sediment Distributions Using Multitemporal Large-Scale Ocean Data Sets,” by M. Snellen, T.C. Gaida, L. Koop, E. Alevizos, and D.G. Simon

“Iterative Per-Vector Equalization for Orthogonal Signal-Division Multiplexing Over Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Channels,” by J. Han, S. Chepuri, Q. Zhang, and G. Leus

“Fusion of Swath Bathymetric Data: Application to AUV Rapid Environment Assessment,” by R. Fezzani, B. Zerr, A. Mansour, M. Legris, and C. Vrignaud

“Automatic Seagrass Disturbance Pattern Identification on Sonar Images,” by M. Rahnemoonfar, A. Rahman, R. Kline, and A. Greene

“Deep Image Representations for Coral Image Classification,” by A. Mahmood, M.Bennamoun, S.An, F.A. Sohel, F.Boussaid, R.Hovey, B.A.Kendrick, and R.B.Fisher

“A Decision Support System to Ease Operator Overload in Mul-tibeam Passive Sonar,” by I. Rice, and D. Lowe

“Hydropod: An Onboard Deployed Acoustic-Visual Device for Propeller Cavitation and Noise Investigations,” B. Aktas, M. Atlar, S. Leivadaros, N. Sasaki, and P. Fitzsimmons

“Marine Spatial Planning Using High Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar Measurements,” G. Benassai, D. Di Luccio, V. Corcione, F. Nunziata, and M. Migliaccio

“Double-Loop Integral Terminal Sliding Mode Track-ing Control for UUVs with Adaptive Dynamic Com-

pensation of Uncertainties and Disturbances,” by L. Qiao, W. Zhang

“A Simple Frequency-Domain Negative Acknowledgment Feed-back for Automatic Repeat on reQuest Underwater Acoustic Net-works,” by A. Petroni, H-L Ko, T. Im, Y-H Cho, S. Pergoloni, G. Scarano, R. Cusani, and M. Biagi

“Localizing Snapping Shrimp Noise Using a Small-Aperture Array,” by Y.M. Too, M. Chitre, G. Barbastahis, V. Pallayil

“Sound-Source Localization in Range-Dependent Shallow-Water Environments Using a Four-Layer Model,” by X. Wang, S. Khazaie, D. Komatitsch, and P. Sagaut

“Motion Control of a Hovering Biomimetic Four-Fin Underwa-ter Robot,” T. Salumäe, A. Chermori, and M. Kruusmaa

“Preamble Detection for Underwater Acoustic Communications Based on Sparse Channel Identification,” by W. Li, S. Zhou, P. Willett, Q. Zhang

“Performance Analysis of Single-Receiver Matched-Mode Localization,” by Y. Le Gall, F.-X. Socheleau, J. Bonnel

“Impact of Current Disturbances on AUV Docking: Model-Based Motion Prediction and Countering Approaches,” by S. Fan, B. Li, W. Xu, and Y. Xu

From the EIC’s DeskMandar Chitre, Journal Editor in Chief


“Performance Analysis of Constant-False-Alarm-Rate Detec-tors Using Characteristic Functions,” by D. Abraham

“Accuracy Assessment of Surface Current Velocities Observed by OSMAR-S High-Frequency Radar System,” by Y. Lai, H. Zhou, Y. Zeng, and B. Wen

“Estimates of Internal Tide Energetics in the Western Bay of Bengal,” by S. Mohanty, A.D. Rao, and H.K. Pradhan

“A Low-Cost Dead Reckoning Navigation System for an AUV Using a Robust AHRS: Design and Experimental Analysis,” by M.T. Sabet, H.M. Daniali, A. Fathi, and E. Alizadeh

“Modeling AUV Localization Error in a Long Baseline Acous-tic Positioning System,” by D.J.M. Thomson, S.E. Dosso, and D.R. Barclay

“Using a Stationary Compact Array of Acoustic Sensors to Estimate the Motion Parameters of Sources,” by I.R. Urazghil-diiev, and D.E. Hannay

“Coupled Hydroplane and Variable Ballast Control Sys-tem for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Altitude-Keeping to Variable Seabed,” by J. David, R. Bauer, and M. Seto

“A Sensor Web Architecture for Integrating Smart Oceano-graphic Sensors into the Semantic Sensor Web,” by J. Del Rio, D.M.Toma, E. Martinez, T.C. O’Reilly, E. Delory, J.S. Pearl-man, C.Waldmann, and S. Jirka

“Physical Modeling for the Gradual Change of Pitch Angle of Underwater Glider in Sea Trial,” by L. Gao, B. Li, and L. Gao

“Long-Term Inertial Navigation Aided by Dynamics of Flow Field Features,” by Z. Song, and K. Mohseni

“An Operational Concept for Correcting Navigation Drift dur-ing Sonar Surveys of the Seafloor,” by A.J. Hunter, W.A. Con-nors, and S. Dugelay

“Balancing Power Absorption Against Structural Loads with Viscous Drag and Power-Take-Off Efficiency Considerations,” by N. Tom, Y.-H. Yu, A. Wright, and M. Lawson

“Hydrodynamic Coefficients of Heave Plates, with Application to Wave Energy Conversion,” by A. Brown, J. Thomson, and C. Rusch

“Multibranch Autocorrelation Method for Doppler Estimation in Underwater Acoustic Channels,” by J. Li, Y.V. Zakharov, and B. Henson

“Experimental Demonstration of Shadow Zone Localization Using Deep Water Interference Patterns Measured by a Single Hydrophone,” by J.-B. Weng, and Y.-M. Yang

“Spread-Spectrum Method Using Multiple Sequences for Underwater Acoustic Communications,” by F. Qu, X. Qin, L. Yang, and T.C. Yang

“Spatial Modeling of Deep-Sea Ferromanganese Nodules with Limited Data Using Neural Networks,” by V.N. Hari, B. Kalyan, M. Chitre, and V. Ganesan

“Model and Algorithm Improvement on Single Beacon Underwater Tracking,” by Z. Zhu, and S.-L.J.Hu

“AUV-Based Underwater 3-D Point Cloud Generation Using Acoustic Lens-Based Multibeam Sonar,” by H. Cho, B. Kim, and S.-C. Yu

Request for Nominations for The Distinguished Technical Achievement Award 2018The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society is hereby soliciting nominations for the society Distinguished Technical Achieve-ment Award for significant accomplishments in oceanic engi-neering. A nomination form can be downloaded from the OES website under Professional Activities-Honors and Honorees-Award Forms. Nominations should be forwarded to the Awards Chair, Dr. René Garello at [email protected]. The deadline for nominations is 1 May 2018.

Request for Nominations for The Distinguished Service Award 2018The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society is hereby soliciting nomina-tions for the society Distinguished Service Award to honor an individ-ual IEEE member for outstanding contributions toward furthering the objectives of the Oceanic Engineering Society. A nomination form can be downloaded from the OES website under Professional Activities-Honors and Honorees-Award Forms. Nominations should be forwarded to the Awards Chair, Dr. René Garello at [email protected]. The deadline for nominations is 1 May 2018.

Request for Nominations for DTAA and DSA 2018René Garello, Chair of IEEE/OES Nominations and Appointments Committees, Junior Past President


In November 2017 I had the opportunity to present and partici-pate as an instructor at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) glider school (http://gliderschool.eu/). Fol-lowing a prior cruise with collaborators from Geomar and MARUM, I was invited to discuss Waveglider and general UUV applications for science as well as to help with on water instruc-tion and testing during the week-long school. As PLOCAN does not provide funding for any of its participants, MBARI and OES were kind enough to send me to participate. I’ve been an IEEE member since 2006 and have had the opportunity to teach AUV tutorials at OCEANS conferences since 2012. There is a large amount of investment currently going on in the Macaronesia region and I was happy to participate in some outreach and field deployments in the region again. Much of the physical oceanog-raphy is similar to the West coast of the U.S. as they experience upwelling, coastal nutrient enrichment from land, and open ocean eddies. The entire region is largely undersampled and ripe for the use of autonomous vehicles to provide a persistent observational presence. Fairly frequent ship surveys also reduce the risk of operating in this type of offshore environment and compliment the science already being done in the region.

I was teamed up with some familiar collaborators from MARUM and presented on autonomous vehicle applications at MBARI and the general state of the art of autonomous vehicles during the classroom session. Following that, I answered ques-tions and helped to orient students to the Wavegliders there (SV3 and SV2). The SV3 waveglider that was present was familiar to me as I was lucky enough to participate in its first deployment

from a large research vessel back in February 2017 with our collaborators from MARUM. This fall we decided to attempt a boat-free launch and recovery at the Taliarte harbor adjacent to PLOCAN. This style of launch is applicable to many users around the world as it only requires a vessel of opportunity for emergencies versus the larger investment of a ship/crew. Follow-ing a couple successful entries and exits in and out of the harbor under its own power, we escorted students to sea on a breezy day to observe the vehicle in action. There’s nothing like a rough day at sea to make people appreciate the value of robots!

We had an opportunity to discuss many different types of autonomous vehicles that week and I think students left with a greater sense of the applicability of autonomous systems to ocean observing as well as how various types of platforms could best meet their needs. I believe expanding the school to include even more types of autonomous systems would help enrich the experience even more and provide further options to support the science being done in the region.

PLOCAN Glider School—November 2017Brian Kieft- MBARI

Escorting the SV3 in at the end of the day.

No vessel ever touched the Waveglider. The dockside crane handled launch and recovery.

Post launch inspection of the tether.



UKRI Chapter—New UKRI Chapter Recruits New Members at SUBSEA EXPO in Aberdeen Brian Horsburgh, Secretary Professor John Watson (Deputy Chair) and Brian Horsburgh (Secretary) of the new UKRI OES Chapter attended Subsea Expo, 7–9 February, to promote OES membership and its activities. Over 3500 attendees from the ocean engineering community attended the 3-day annual expo. During the event, a number of new contacts were made, including 12 prospective new members. Interest was also shown in future OES/MTS conferences by potential exhibitors. Organised at short notice, the UKRI committee members attending were pleased with this response. (Thanks to Subsea UK for their support in enabling our participation at the event.)

Professor Nick Wright, Chapter Chair, will host the inaugu-ral Chapter event at University of Newcastle, UK, on 27 March. Speaker to be confirmed

Malaysia Chapter—Meeting Report and ActivitiesReported by Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar and Mohd Rizal Arshad

4th Annual General Meeting 2018The 4th IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on the 27th January 2018 at the Everly Hotel, Putrajaya Kuala Lumpur. The 2017 chapter activities report was presented by the Chair, Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd Rizal Arshad. The chapter had conducted 15 administrative meetings, 22 educa-tional activities, 7 technical activities, 1 membership drive, 1 professional activity, 1 social activity and 4 others. The AGM was then followed by the treasurer’s report which was presented by Dr. Zool Hilmi Ismail. Next the election for 2018 IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter Executive Committees was conducted. The standing committees for 2018 can be seen as in the table below.

2018 IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter Executive Committee.

Chair: Mohd Rizal Arshad

Vice Chair: Khalid Isa

Secretary: Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar

Treasurer: Zool Hilmi Ismail

Excom: Ahmad Faisal Mohamad AyobMohd Fairuz Nor Azmi

Mohd Shahrieel Mohd ArasMohamad Faizal Abd Rahman

Herdawatie Abdul Kadir

Malaysia Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge (MAUVC)Reported by Mohd Shahrieel Mohd Aras & Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar The Malaysia Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge was a first-time event being organized by the IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter. The event took place at the International Islamic Uni-versity Malaysia on the 17th and 18th December 2017. The competition was opened to all university students in Malaysia

Photo taken after the 4th AGM.

Chapter NewsSubmit Chapter News to Beacon Co-Editors and OES Chapter Coordinator

Brian Horsburgh speaks to prospective new member.

Subsea Expo hall.


with the aim to provide students an opportunity to experience the challenges of AUV system engineering as well as to develop their skills in the associated technologies. As the first-time event, the organizer received 7 participation teams coming from Universiti Teknikal Melaka UTeM (3 teams) and Univer-siti Sains Malaysia (USM), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) for 1 team each, respectively.

Winners for the challenge are as follows:Champion—Roboteam, IIUMFirst Runner Up—UTeRG, FKE, UTeMSecond Runner Up—UCRG, USM

Congratulations to all winners!

IEEE 7th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS’17)The USYS’17 conference marked another successful event organized by the IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter. The conference was held on the 19th and 20th December 2017 at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. The two day conference provided such a fruitful knowledge in sharing activities and a

platform for extending the networking among researchers in the ocean engineering related area. The event included 5 distin-guished keynote speakers in one session, presentation of techni-cal papers, a workshop as well as an exhibition.

Keynote Speech 1 by Professor Dr. Fabrice Meriaudeau:A New Insight about Underwater Image (2D/3D) Acquisition and Restoration

Keynote Speech 2 by Professor Dr. Kamal Zuhairi Zamli:Meta-Heuristic and Hyper-Heuristic Algorithms: Solving Gen-eral Optimization Problem

Keynote Speech 3 by Ir. Shaiful Khalid:“Be Real”—How New Technology for Ocean Engineering Make the Project Economic?

Keynote Speech 4 by Mr. Kelvin Chow:Autonomous Vehicle—Now and Future

Keynote Speech 5 by Professor Dr. Kelvin Pere Ridao:Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Intervention Applications

During the conference 3 papers have been selected as recipients of best paper awards. The author and the paper pre-sented are as follows:

Best Paper Award—First Place:Underwater Localization Utilizing a Method Acoustic Indoor Tracking SystemDominik Jan Schott

Best Paper Award—Second Place:Development of Drifting Buoy Inspired by Water Strider for Shallow Water EnvironmentHerdawatie Abdul Kadir

Best Paper Award—Third Place:ASV Data Logger for Bathymetry Mapping SystemMuhammad Faiz Abu Bakar

Photos from MAUVC event.

Photo with some of the USYS’17 keynote speakers and participants.


Apart from keynote and technical paper presentations, the two day conference also showcased an exhibition of under-water platforms which have been developed by several insti-tutions in Malaysia. A half-day workshop on Searching Algorithm was also conducted in conjunction with the con-ference event. The workshop was delivered by Prof. Dr. Kamal Zuhairi Zamli.

Singapore Chapter—Annual Workshop and GBMReported by Venugopalan Pallayil, Ken Teo, Hari Vishnu and Bharath KalyanThe IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, Singapore Chapter, organized its 2017 annual workshop and general body meeting (GBM) on 10 Nov 2017 at the S2S conference room in the Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Sin-gapore. Technical talks were delivered by experts from both academia and industry. The talks spanned a wide variety of disciplines related to ocean engineering and marine sciences. A list of talks organized and the speaker names are provided in the table.

Speaker Name and affiliation

Title of Talk and brief description

Dr. Tiago Oliveira, Research Fellow, Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore

Global Scale Underwater Sound Modeling: A 3D under-water sound propagation model using parabolic equation model and a split-step Fourier transform method and results thereof from numerical simulation were presented and compared with field data

Dr. Lim Swee Cheng, Research Fellow, Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore

A new genus and species of abyssal sponge commonly encrusting polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: In this very exciting talk the speaker described his discovery of a new species of sponge in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the East Pacific and at depths of around 4000 m

Dr. David Mateo, Researcher at the Singapore University of Technology and Design

Swarming technology for per-vasive monitoring of the marine environment:The presenter described how his team of researchers built and test-ed a large swarm of low cost and rapidly deployable robotic buoys for ocean environment monitor-ing. The design was inspired by the process of self-organization and swarming observed through-out the natural world.

Dr. Cheng Siong ChinDirector of Innovation and Associate Professor in System Design and Simulation,Newcastle University in Singapore

Simulation and Design of Lithi-um-Ion Battery Power System for Underwater Applications: This talk was centred around the design and development of large format Lithium-Ion batteries for use in underwater robotic vehicles and deep-water ROVs employing electric propellers.

Dr. Martin GutowskiRegional Sales Director at Kongsberg Maritime, Singapore

3D Sub-bottom Profiling—High Resolution 3D Imaging of Shallow Subsurface Structures and Buried Objects:This talk discussed new develop-ments in sub-bottom profiling, which brings 3D reflection seis-mics, routinely used in hydrocar-bon exploration, to the shallow survey market by down-scaling the conventional techniques to achieve decimetre resolution imag-ing of the top tens of metres of the sub-surface in three dimensions.

Prof. Rizal delivered welcoming note during the opening ceremony.

Prof. Dr. Fabrice Meriaudeau.


There was also an active participation from the student com-munity. Mr. Steven Harta Prawira, a student from NUS, shared the team’s novel experience during the 2016 RobotX Challenge organized by AUVSI. All the talks were well attended and facilitated interaction between academics, industry as well as students in the field of oceanic engineering. More details on the talk, as well as other OES activities and events, can be found at its website http://www.ieeeoessg.org/.

The event drew more than 40 attendees from across industry, academia, research institutions and other organisations. There was also a high-tea reception during the event that provided a good avenue for participant interaction. The event also was suc-cessful in recruiting some new members into IEEE and OES.

At the end of the workshop, the OES Chapter held an annual general body meeting of its members. Office bearers for the year 2018 were elected during this meeting and also the plan of action for activities for 2018 was discussed.

A list of office bearers for the year 2018 is given below:Hari Vishnu: [email protected]

Bharath Kalyan: [email protected]

Ahmed Mahmood: [email protected]

Figure 1. Group photo of participants.

Figure 2. A view of one of the talks in progress.

Figure 3. Interaction and discussions by the participants during the high-tea session.


Cheng Siong Chin: [email protected]

Vignesh Subramanian: Committee [email protected]

Chi Cheng: Committee [email protected]

Metarsit Leenayongwut: Commit-tee [email protected]

Anshu Singh: Committee [email protected]

India Chapter—Meeting Report and ActivitiesReported by S. Rajesh

Exclusive Committee Meetings for OCEANS 2022The IEEE OES India chapter had meetings and discussions with the Marine Technology Society—India Council on 24 July, 7 Aug at the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) Campus on organizing the OCEANS 22 conference in India. It was decided to jointly organize OCEANS 22 with the Ocean Engineering Depart-ment, IIT Madras. As a part of the OCEANS conference protocol, the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) was formed as shown in the table given below. The LOC comprises members from the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), the Integrated Coastal and Marine Area Management (ICMAM), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)—Madras and the Indian industries.

Table 1. Local Organizing Committee for the OCEANS 2022.

Chair

Responsibility

IITMNIOT/ICMAM/

Industry

General Dr. S.A.Sannasiraj Dr. M.A. Atmanand

Technical Dr. V. Sriram Dr. G.A. Ramadass

Finance Dr. K. Murali Dr. M.V. Rama-namurthy

Exhibit Dr. R. SundaravadiveluDr. R. Vijayakumar

Mr. S. RajeshMr. S.O. Dinesh

Babu (M/s. Samhitha Marine Private

Limited)

Tutorial Dr. P. Ananthakrishnan Mr. N. Vedachalam

Publicity Dr. V. Sundar Mr. K. Nandakumar(M/s. Elektronik

Lab)

Local Arrangement

Dr. Suresh Rajendran Mr. M. Arul Muthiah

Patron Dr. NilanjanSaha Cdr. K. Gopakumar

Student Poster Dr. Deepak Kumar Mrs. A. Malarkodi

Student Activities

Dr. Tarun K Chandrayadula

Dr. R. Venkatesan

Volunteer Logistics

Dr. R. Pannerselvam Mr. P. Muthuvel

Exclusive committee meeting.


The first exclusive committee meeting of OCEANS 22 was held on 22nd August 2017 at the Department of Ocean Engi-neering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) to dis-cuss the organization of OCEANS 2022.

Ocean Technology Students Camp (OTSC)The chapter along with the National Institute of Ocean Technol-ogy and the Marine Technology Society (MTS) India Section organized the Second Ocean Technology Student Camp (OTSC 2017) on 1st September 2017 at the National Institute of Ocean Technology Campus. More than 65 students from 15 schools participated in the camp. A quiz competition on Ocean Tech-nology was conducted for students as part of the camp. Fifteen teams participated in the quiz competition.

The highlight of the event was the presentation by Deputy Commandant Ms. Upasna Kausik on Indian Coast Guard. This had kindled the interest among students to look at ocean and marine technology as a career option. A visit to Chennai port was arranged for the students during the afternoon session. The students were taken inside Chennai port and were explained about the port facilities, handling ships inside port, berthing and port related tasks. During the port visit, students were also taken to visit the recently commissioned Indian Cost Guard Vessel ICGS Shaurya.

International Representations, Awards and Recognitions Dr. R. Venkatesan, Chairman, IEEE OES India Chapter, was elected to represent Asia Pacific on the Steering Committee of the Global Ocean Observations System (GOOS) of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).

Dr. M. A. Atmanand, Chair, IEEE Madras Section and Dr. R. Venkatesan, Chairman, IEEE OES India Chapter, attended the OCEANS 2017 conference in Anchorage, Alaska. They chaired two sessions and presented two papers in the conference.

Dr. R. Venkatesan was awarded the MTS Lockheed Martin award.

Dr. R. Venkatesan has been selected as a member of the Joint Task Force for smart cables established by the Interna-tional Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Education-al, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO/IOC), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Dr. R. Venkatesan was elected as Chairman for the stan-dards committee of the IOC.

Dr. M. A. Atmanand, Chair, IEEE Madras Section, has been elected as the Chair of the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) of the UNESCO IOC.

IEEE-OES India Chapter General Body MeetingThe General Body Meeting of the IEEE-OES India Chapter, chaired by Dr. R. Venkatesan, was held on 8th January 2018 at the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai.

Group photo.

Student visit at Chennai Harbor.


The meetings are organized to discuss the last year’s activities, financial status of the chapter, way forward towards organizing the OCEANS 22 and proposal of new office bearers followed by election for the year 2018. The office bearers, as listed below, assumed charge after the mandatory period.

Technical Talks Held at NIOTThe IEEE OES India Chapter, in association with the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) and the MTS Indian sec-tion, organized an interactive session with Dr. M. Madan Babu, Program Leader, Regulatory Genomics and Systems Biology Group, Medical Research Council of Molecular Biology, Cam-bridge, UK on 29th January 2018 at NIOT. Dr. G.A. Ramadass,

Chairman, IEEE OES India Chapter, presented an IEEE-OES memento to Dr. M. Madan Babu on behalf of the IEEE OES India Chapter and Dr. R. Venkatesan, Group Head, Ocean Observation Network, also presented a NIOT memento to the speaker. The IEEE OES India Chapter organized a technical talk on “Advances in long term monitoring especially in Bio-Geo Chemical Monitoring” by Dr. Casey Moore, CEO, Seabird Sci-entific Inc, USA on 5th February 2018 at NIOT jointly with the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) and the MTS Indian section. Dr. M. A. Atmanand, Chairmen of the IEEE Madras Section, presented an IEEE-OES Memento to Dr. Casey Moore, Dr. G.A. Ramadass, Chairman, IEEE OES India Chap-ter, presented an IEEE-OES memento and Dr. R. Venkatesan, Group Head, Ocean Observation Network presented the guest with Indian traditional Shawls.

Tech talk by Dr. M. Madan Babu.

Chairman presenting the memento to the Dignitary.

Ex-Chair presenting the Shawl to the Dignitary.

Chairman presenting the memento to the Dignitary.

Tech talk by Dr. Casey Moore.

Table 2. IEEE OES India Chapter Office Bearers elected for the year 2018.

Name Responsibility

Dr. G.A. Ramadass Chairman

Dr. S.A. Sannasiraj Vice-Chairman

Dr. R. Venkatesan Ex-Chair

Mr. S.O. Dinesh Babu Secretary

Mr. S. Rajesh Treasurer

Dr. K. Murali Executive Committee Members

Mr. Prasad Dudhgaonkar

Dr. Deepak Kumar

Dr. V. Sriram


Providence OES Chapter talkIEEE Fellow and OES Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Milica Stojanovic, Northeastern University“Underwater Acoustic Communication: Fundamentals and New Results”By Sandy Williams, Chapter Chair

On November 14, 2017 at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Dr. Stojanovic presented a Distinguished Lecture on Underwater Acoustic Communications to an audience of 13 (8 members and 5 guests). This was the third technical meeting of the Providence OES Chapter in 2017. Her excellent presentation started with fundamentals and made the case that underwater acoustics can-not take as a model the radio communications models that work well in air. In fact, models are not yet standard for underwater acoustic communications and still require experimental verifica-tion. She presented some of the results from three experiments on the Atlantic East Coast and one in Hawaii to develop a better model for “Long Time” effects where the oceanic fluctuations are long range compared to the wavelength of the sound used and “Short Time” effects, closer to scattering, where the environmen-tal fluctuations are short compared to the wavelength of the sig-nal. Also, unlike radio communications where the bandwidth is quite high but the frequency of transmission is very much higher than the bandwidth, in acoustic communications the bandwidth is generally about the same as the center frequency of the signal. This leads to very different behavior. Multipath is very important as a problem to be overcome and equalization of the frequencies present in the signal is necessary or at least a vast improver of the signal to noise. Starting with such fundamentals as the history of underwater communications used in WW2 to communicate with submarines from surface ships to the need to connect with under-

water vehicles for such things as finding ship wrecks (Titanic), the relatively low bandwidth (single sideband at 8-11kHz) was contrasted to the very high bandwidth of optical communications, which have very limited range underwater. So you need both. Acoustic signal to noise is frequency dependent due to attenuation and to noise due to distant shipping at low frequency. Then Dr. Stojanovic presented new results that few in the audience were familiar with and finished with hopes for implementation of her predictions based upon her recently developed models with hard-ware seemingly showing a 15 year implementation lag in contrast to the 6 month lag in cell phone technology.

Milica Stojanovic on the left and Fred Thwaites in the center are being regaled by Marinna Martini’s story of her recent

Professional Engineer exam.

Milica noted that early demands for improved underwater acoustic communications stemmed from such applications as the exploration of the wreck of the Titanic with AUVs following

soon behind.

The final slide from Dr. Stojanovic’s talk is a conclusion that the situation in underwater acoustic communication isn’t

entirely solved.


7th IEEE/OES Baltic Symposium on 12–15th of June 2018, in Klaipeda, Lithuania

Clean and Safe Baltic Sea and Energy Security for the Baltic countries

We are pleased to announce that 7th IEEE/OES Baltic Symposium “Clean and Safe Baltic Sea and Energy Security for the Baltic countries”

scheduled to be in Klaipeda, Lithuania, on 12–15th of June 2018. The event will be hosted by Klaipeda University and Baltic Valley Association. This will be

the fourth time the Symposium has been in Klaipeda and has always received great support from the Lithuanian government and the U.S. Embassy.

The program will include plenary talks by experienced lecturers, oral and poster

presentations, round table discussions, and a field trip to the UNESCO Natural

Heritage Site—Curonian Spit. Basic topics for the Symposium will be Energy Security and Independence, Hazard Planning and Mitigation, Handling of the Extensive Ammunition and Ordinance that have been disposed of in the

Baltic Sea and Ecosystems and socio-economic impacts.

Important dates

February 23, 2018—deadline for abstract submission

April 25, 2018—deadline for registration and full research paper submission

June 4, 2018—final announcement (including a programme)

June 12, 2018—beginning of the Symposium


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OCEANS’18 Kobe provides a chance to foster a dramatic increase in marine-related science and Technology, and marine industries in Japan. It is also an opportunity to meet new aspects of our “OCEAN Planet” home. Here, we introduce the Ocean- related facilities and historical sites around the Kobe city for the conference attendees to visit there before/during/after the con-ference for better understanding the Kobe city.

Welcome to Kobe!

1. Kobe Maritime Museum & Kawasaki Good Times WorldWith its characteristic white space frame roof giving the impression of a sailboat racing across the vast ocean under the concept of “Born from the sea and port, sailing into the future with Kobe”. Visitors can experience the history and future of the seas, ships, and ports. Through resources including actual navigation instruments, riggings, and ship records, diorama models, videos, and graphics, visitors are introduced to the past, present, and future of the seas, ships, and ports around Kobe.

Kawasaki Good Times World can also be found right nearby. This corporate museum is operated by Kawasaki Heavy Indus-tries, which has helped the city advance since the Port of Kobe first opened.

Open Hours 10:00 to 17:00 (admittance until 16:30 p.m.)Days closed Closed on Mondays (or the following day if Mon-

day is a national holiday) New Year’s Holiday (Dec. 29 to Jan. 3)Address 2-2, Hatoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-

0042, Japan http://www.kobe-maritime-useum.com/language/english.html

2. The Maiko Marine Promenade, a Circuit-style Promenade on the Akashi-Kaikyo BridgeIt was constructed on the Kobe side of the bridge as an addi-tional facility and was opened on April 5th, 1998. Situated approximately 47 meters above the sea and 150 meters above the ground, it has a total length of approximately 317 meters looking over the Akashi Strait.

You can have a relaxing break looking at the bridge at the observation lounge on the 8th floor, where there is an observa-tion camera system which makes you feel like you’re on top of the bridge’s 300-meter-high main tower. If you want an addi-tional thrill, try the “log-bridge 47 meters above the sea.”

Welcome to OCEANS’18 Kobe MTS/IEEE/Techno-Ocean2018, May 28–31, Kobe, JapanLocal Organizing Committee for OCEANS’18 Kobe

Kobe maritime museum.

Kawasaki good times world.


Address 2051 Higashimaiko-cho, Tarumi-ku, Kobe-City 655-0047 Japan

Open Hours 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (admittance until: 5:30 p.m.)

Days closed April to September: nonehttp://hyogo-maikopark.jp/en/facility/f01/#ad-image-0

3. Arima Onsen (Hot Spring)Surrounded by nature and tranquility at the northern foot of Mt. Rokko in Kobe, Arima Onsen is one of the three oldest hot-spring resorts in Japan. It is well-known for its two types of springs: Kinsen, or “Gold Spring,” which is brownish-red water rich in iron and salinity, and Ginsen, or “Silver Spring,” which is transparent water containing radium and carbonate. This traditional town attracts 1.8 million visitors every year. One of the characteristics of the spring water of Arima is its high salt content. With a salinity concentration 1.5 times higher than seawater, Arima’s hot springs are top class within Japan. The reason why this type of spring exists in Arima despite the absence of a volcanoe is due to the movement of ocean plates.

When the ocean plates shift, sea water and limestone come in contact with the mantle which heats the water, pushing it towards the surface as it takes on iron. Arima Onsen’s water is a blessing from the sea.

For more information: http://visit.arima-onsen.com/

Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.

Circuit-style promenade.

Arima hot spring.

Geisha at Arima Onsen.



Is there fun at an OCEANS conference…see for yourself in this A Blast from the Past! from OCEANS ’04 Kobe.

A Blast from the Past!Bob Wernli—Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief

John Watson, Steve Holt, Norm Miller, Ken Ferer, Bob Wernli, and Ken Foote enjoy the banquet.

Plenary Session Orchestra from Kobe University. Kobe at Night.

OTO 2004 General Chair Tamaki Ura addresses the Plenary Session.

Tom Wiener, Joe Vadus and Tamaki Ura at the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony.


Stan Chamberlain and a Japanese Dancer at the Banquet.

Naochika Namba Presents Joe Vadus with an Image of the City of Kobe.

OCEANS ‘18MTS/IEEECharleston

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston Area Convention Center

October 22-25, 2018

OCEANS ‘18MTS/IEEECharleston

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston Area Convention Center

October 22-25, 2018

For more information, visit:www.oceans18mtsieeecharleston.orgFor more information, visit:www.oceans18mtsieeecharleston.org

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We have better maps of Mars and the moon than of our own home planet—70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water, which poses unique challenges for exploration and imaging. As ambassador for all things ocean-related, in 2017 IEEE Earthzine

partnered with Shell Ocean Discovery xPrize to help our annual Writing Fellowship deliver stories that engage the public with ocean exploration and highlight the technologies in development to deliver us to places we’ve never been before, right here on Earth.

Earthzine Writing Fellowship Dives into the Ocean, One Story at a TimeJenny Woodman, IEEE Earthzine

NOAA’s Ocean Ship Okeanos Explorer is one of several vessels conducting seafloor mapping and ocean exploration missions.

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Why is Earthzine Mentoring Writers?Significant scholarship suggests that mentoring is integral in developing in one’s career, and writing is no exception to this rule. From medical (Flaherty, 2016) to legal (Kawalski, 2011) to creative writing—early career writers perform bet-ter when mentors are available to share best practices and guide the development of instincts that will serve the writer for the long haul.

Fostering opportunities for growth and training among young professionals is an important activity for IEEE Earthzine. In 2015, thanks to support from NASA’s Applied Sciences Pro-gram and IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, a Writing Club was established to build capacity among students and early-career science professionals for communicating the benefits of using Earth information to support decision-making. With a newly renamed Writing Fellowship, IEEE Earthzine hoped to encourage and develop aspiring writers who are interested in Earth observation and scientific communication.

How Does it Work?The 10-week, online program includes a series of workshops and presentations led by professional writers and experts from the scientific community. Weekly readings, presentations, and activities focus on developing the skills needed to find story ideas, conduct research, interview sources, write articles, and move through the editorial process toward publication.

In addition to required coursework and discussions, which are facilitated remotely, IEEE Earthzine volunteers and staff provide one-on-one mentorship on the writing and peer review process to help participants reach the final goal: publication.

Participants are awarded a $200 honorarium for successfully participating in this rigorous program, which is conducted much like an upper division college-level course. Students are expected to provide meaningful peer feedback and show growth in their writ-ing skills over the course of the program. The 2017 honorarium is sponsored by Shell Ocean Discovery xPrize—IEEE Earthzine is grateful for their generous support of our Writing Fellowship.

2017 Fellows are hard at work on stories that will transport our readers to the deep ocean with explorations of the technol-ogy, research, and people currently changing our understanding of dynamic Earth processes. At the end of the program, we will run a two-part series examining how ocean data is used and who is collecting the data for scientists around the world. Readers can also look forward to reading about satellites measuring sea ice, intelligent devices designed to sniff out biological hazards and ocean features, ocean exploration in space, and the future of aquaculture.

Plans are in the works for another session of the writ-ing fellowship program in 2018. Visit www.earthzine.org for details and, if you don’t already, subscribe to our monthly newsletter.

Meanwhile, here is the 2017 Writing Fellowship Cohort:

Catherine Foley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, where her research is focused on the spatial ecology and biogeography of Antarctic mesopredators. Catherine is particularly interested in

ways to get citizens invested in environmental issues through science communication and policy.

Jenny Gessaman is a rural Montana journalist who’s passionate about delivering information in a relatable way. She loves helping peo-ple understand the science affecting their lives, work-ing it into every relevant beat, from infrastructure to agriculture. When she’s not meeting deadlines, Jenny enjoys biking, hiking, horror stories and petting her flat-faced cat.

Sara Lubkin is an Earth scientist. She earned her Ph.D. in geol-ogy from Cornell University and recently completed a graduate certificate in Geospatial Information Science from Northern


Virginia Community College. She teaches geology courses at the University of Mary Washington and is completing her fifth term with the NASA DEVELOP National Program.

Veronica Padula is the science education and communication specialist for the Ecosystem Conservation Office of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island in Alaska. She is also a graduate student in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in collaboration with the Univer-sity of Alaska Anchorage. Her research investigated the impacts of marine debris on seabirds in the Bering Sea, and the movement of plastic-associated chemicals through Bering Sea food webs.

Jennifer Parilli is a recent graduate of the University of Georgia, where she studied ecology and anthropology. She works on one of the state’s barrier islands, feeding and caring for ring-tailed lemurs. In her free time, she enjoys writing about ecology on her personal blog and running on the beach.

Peter Sinclair is an astrophysics graduate student at the Univer-sity of New Mexico who plans a career of science and astrono-my outreach.

Erica Spain is a first-year Ph.D. candidate at the Insti-tute for Marine and Antarc-tic Studies, in Hobart, Aus-tralia. Her research focuses on using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles to map extreme marine environ-ments, including methane seeps, hydrothermal vents and under Antarctic sea ice. She will investigate how we can better understand these remote places by integrating

a suite of acoustic data and mapping approaches in a three-dimen-sional space.

Andrew Urevig works as a writer and fact checker for Ensia magazine, and as a beekeeper with the Universi-ty of Minnesota’s Bee Squad, where he is pursuing a bache-lor’s in scientific interpreta-tion and communication.

Jenny Woodman is a science writer, editor and educator for IEEE Earthzine; she lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Fol-low her on Twitter @JennyWoodman


This article adds a Canadian connection to Rene Garello’s piece about the IEEE commemoration of the French Transatlantic Cable that appeared in the last issue of the Beacon (‘The French Transatlantic Telegraph Cable, 1898’, OES Beacon, volume 6, #4, 30–32). It’s also a personal perspective that links folks in two society chapters, one in Victoria and the other in Halifax. The story I’ll relate here is about a building that was construct-ed as part of the French Transatlantic Cable system and lives on today as a research lab and Heritage site in Halifax: the French Cable Building.

When I worked at the Defence Research Establishment Pacific in Esquimalt many years ago, we had yearly visits with colleagues from our sister lab, Defence Research Establish-ment Atlantic (DREA), in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The exchange visits were in February, so in one year a few of us would go east, in the February depths of a Nova Scotia winter, and in alternate years, a fortunate few from DREA came out west to visit us in Victoria and enjoy a few days break from the same Nova Scotia winter (and perhaps go skiing at Whistler Mountain). These exchanges were always very useful in get-ting a new perspectives on our work from the many discussions that were crammed into the two or three days of the visits. In some of the discussions in the early times at the start of my career, I heard the DREA folks talk about doing work in the ‘French Cable Building’—as though it was quite a natural part of the things they did. Eventually, after a few times hearing about this strange reference that suggested something more intriguing beyond just a government research laboratory, I asked ‘what is this building?’ That’s when my real interest in this unique site developed. And the more I learned about it, the more interesting it became. The story of the French Cable building starts with its role with the transatlantic communica-tion cables, passes through one of the most serious disasters in

Canadian history, and finally comes to the present time as part of a research laboratory in defence science.

The article that appeared in the Beacon last year celebrated the transatlantic cable built in 1898 by the French Telegraph Cable Company (La Compagnie Française Des Câbles Télé-graphiques) that established a direct link between Brest and Cape Cod. Figure 1 shows the 1898 cable route, and also an earlier more northern line built in 1869 by a different French agency, La Société du Câble Transatlantique Française. The 1869 cable connected Brest to the United States via the French island of St. Pierre, on the Grand Banks south of Newfound-land. In 1873, a spur line was built between St. Pierre and Canso Nova Scotia, thus providing a link with Canada. How-ever, the Société later sold its interests in the transatlantic line. At the turn of the century, French interests in transatlantic com-munications were represented by the French Telegraph Cable Company. The company set up its Canadian operations in Halifax harbour, where it established a wharf and cable storage building in 1916 to handle maintenance and repair of the sub-marine cables.

The French cable building, shown in Figure 2 as it stands today, is a simple, two-story, square structure of reinforced con-crete and classical design. The building features an elaborate moulded cornice with the inscription “COMPAGNIE FRAN-CAISE DES CABLES TELEGRAPHIQUES” detailed in con-crete. It was located at the site of the French Cable Wharf on the Dartmouth shore of Halifax harbour that served as the base for the company’s cable ship, CS Édouord Jéremec. The building originally was thus known as the ‘French Cable Wharf Build-ing’ but the label was subsequently shortened by my DREA colleagues to simply the ‘French Cable Building’. It was the administrative centre of operations at sea with the Édouord Jéremec, and a place for preparing new cable for frequent

The French Cable Building

Ross Chapman

Figure 1. The lower red line shows the route of the 1898 trans-atlantic cable connecting Brest and Cape Cod. (By permission,

J. Bodénès, ‘La grande aventure des câbles télégraphiques’, L’Association Locmaria Patrimoine.)


When you get ready to take your sensor to sea in a ship or on a float, do you ever review common Best Practices (BP) or stan-dard operating protocols in advance to see what others have done and why? Where would you even go to look for a compre-hensive source of Best Practices? Of course, if you have made the same measurements for years, then maybe you are the source of Best Practices. How do we bring together all sources of Best Practices in support of the observing community?

Ocean observing systems rely on robust and stable instru-ments integrated into equally robust platform and information infrastructure. The Best Practices associated with observing systems cover all elements of the end-to-end process ranging from observatory design and sensor handling to the deposition of quality data in archives. For example, large observing infrastruc-ture programs such as the U.S. Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) or the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

Bringing It All Together—Toward A Sustainable Capability For Ocean Best PracticesJay Pearlman, IEEE; Mark Bushnell, U.S. IOOS; Pier Luigi Buttigieg, AWI; Juliet Hermes, SAEON/JCOMM; Emma Heslop, SOCIB/JCOMM; Johannes Karstensen, GEOMAR; Cristian Muñoz, SOCIB; Francoise Pearlman, IEEE; Pauline Simpson CCMI/IODE

repairs to the submarine cable. This was done in three large concrete wells inside the building that were used to store coiled cable. However, within a year of its construction, the building was at the centre of a tragedy that destroyed most of the city.

On the morning of 6 December 1917, two ships that were preparing to join a wartime convoy to England collided in the narrows in Halifax harbour. A fire started on one of them, the SS Mont Blanc, and the ship drifted toward the city as it burned. Unknown to the local population, many of whom had stopped to watch the fire on the ship in the harbour, the Mont Blanccarried a cargo of munitions destined for use by the allies at the western front. Within minutes of the collision, the cargo exploded, sending a shock wave that levelled buildings on both sides of the harbour within a 2.6 km radius. Over 25,000 citi-zens were instantly homeless and about 2000 were killed. It was at the time the largest man-made explosion.

Astonishingly, although the French Cable building was at the shoreline within a kilometre of the blast, the building survived intact owing to its exceptional workmanship with reinforced thick concrete walls. Its neighbours, including the Oland Brew-ery, a rowing club and an encampment of the Mi’kmaw First Nations were totally destroyed

The French Telegraph Cable Company continued operations from the building and the wharf until 1929 when it sold its interests after an earthquake on the Grand Banks caused exten-sive damage to the submarine cable.

During WW II, the Royal Canadian Navy took over the site, and used the wharf and French Cable Building to maintain Fairmile-B motor launches that patrolled coastal areas for subma-rines. In 1975 the site was absorbed by DREA as part of the research facility. My colleagues at the laboratory used the build-ing for storage and fabrication of sensitive hydrophone arrays for submarine detection during the cold war. The building itself, now officially renamed with the unromantic designation of ‘Building Number 4’, was renovated in 2002 with offices and new labora-

tory spaces. Two of the original concrete wells that stored the submarine cables are now used as tanks for testing new underwa-ter equipment. One is lined with a large cedar barrel and is fresh water filled, and the other salt water filled.

Over the years, the French Cable Wharf gradually fell into disrepair and was demolished in the mid-2000’s following an extensive remediation of contaminated materials that had accu-mulated during its use. However, the French Cable Building endures as a research facility and a Federal Heritage property, recognized in 2000 for its links as a survivor of the Halifax explo-sion, and the development of telecommunications in Canada.

For further reading about the building, see the article and references by Vincent Myers in the December 2017 issue of The Griffin, A Quarterly Publication of Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia: ‘Building #4: the French Cable Wharf Building on the Dartmouth Waterfront’.

Figure 2. The French Cable Building as it stands today. The letters in the inscription on the cornice were originally painted

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for coastal observations, or ocean observing networks operated under the auspice of the WMO-IOC Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) docu-ment and share Best Practices and urge their propagation. These valuable documents are often affiliated to international organiza-tions such as the IOC/UNESCO IODE or GOOS. Despite the quality of these efforts, best practice documentation is still frag-mented and its impact is difficult to sustain over time.

To address the fragmentation challenge, an international initia-tive has been created to provide the ocean observing community with a sustainable compendium of ocean observing peer-reviewed. They can be used in training new oceanographers and engineers, to provide references for experts, and to ensure inter-comparability across observations. Where practical, a solution

should reach across the science and engineering communities and support multi-disciplinary applications.

But let’s step back a minute and ask “What is a ‘Best’ Prac-tice?” Many experts have practices, but don’t know if they are “best.” Some standard operating procedures are Best Practices. The stories told can show simple steps—“put the sensor in the water right side up” or “remember to turn the sensor on.” You might say this could never happen. But, …. So what is a Best Practice? At the international workshop on ocean observing Best Practices held in Paris, November 2017, a Best Practice was defined as:

A community Best Practice is a methodology that has repeat-edly produced superior results relative to other methodologies with the same objective. To be fully elevated to a Best Practice, a promising method will have been adopted and employed by multiple organizations.

A Best Practice may come in any number of format types— Best Practices, standard operating procedures, manuals, operat-ing instructions, etc.—with the understanding that the document content is put forth by the provider as a community Best Prac-tice.

What are the issues in bringing together practices that are use-ful for research and operations? In some cases, it is actually creating the documents and convincing community members to contribute to them. Then there are cultural, technical and finan-cial issues. Challenges reaching across disciplines arise because each of the ocean disciplines (chemistry, biology, etc.) has its own culture and vocabulary. Another challenge lies in automa-tion. Many of the Best Practices are textual, typically in pdf

format, and hard to read by machines. Another challenge is in the diversity of best practice metadata formats that hinder comprehensive searches. Finally, the cost of creating and sustaining the Best Practices System must be accounted for. In addition, there are training needs and the challenge of complying with Best Practices that require costly fielding tech-niques and equipment.

The strategy for creating a useful and sustainable repository is to leverage existing capabilities when-ever possible, both in the repository infrastructure and the content of Best Practices. Then, expand the infrastruc-ture with new search mecha-nisms based on ontologies that can service the different ocean research and engi-neering disciplines. The long-term goal is to provide

Figure 1. Reviewing protocols for sampling.

Figure 2. Process flow for Ocean Best Practices enhancement and archiving (from paper by Pearlman, et al, MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference Anchorage 2017).


repository users with the ability to reach across many aspects/elements of observing systems from their own perspective.

While existing best practice documents will be included in the repository in their native formats, it may be necessary to add metadata elements to support improved discovery and access. As a strategy, the best practice repository will identify three levels of document processing to indicate the complete-ness of the documentation to users. At the highest level, the Best Practices will have comprehensive metadata and have been peer reviewed by the community or through a repository expert panel. The figure below shows the flow process.

The flow works as follows: documents created by expert groups, agencies, or other stakeholders are allocated a persis-tent URL when they are deposited in the IODE OceanBestPrac-tices (OBP) repository: https://www.oceanbestpractices.net/. Within the repository, the document may be at one of several levels depending on the levels of metadata, completeness of information and peer review. BP documents that are already peer-reviewed and have complete metadata are automatically assigned the highest level of internal repository status after validation. Templates for Best Practices have been defined and beta tested to further uniformity of submission. Use of such templates is recommended but is not required.

All documents will be exposed as web pages and users may access a web portal that would convert their requests (e.g. “Retrieve all BPs that are about measuring oxygen in coastal water”) into semantic queries that would be processed using ontology.

All BP methods will be encouraged to go through peer review, either in their originating community, through the repository expert panel or through a journal peer review sys-tem. A Research Topic “Best Practices for Ocean Observing” within the Frontiers in Marine Science Journal (Ocean Obser-vations Section) will provide a sustained publication media for peer review and for Best Practices. In addition, a Peer Review Panel populated by community volunteers will be established within the OBP Repository.

Starting a new process/capability for sustaining Best Practices must address two subjects: 1) first, a sufficient quantity of best practice documents must be aggregated to effectively serve the community and 2) an enhanced resource for the efficient archiving of, discovery of, and access to these practices must exist. The Best Practices Working Group collaboration (https://www.atlantos-h2020.eu/project-information/best-practices/) is addressing the first challenge by drawing together a range of methodological documents endorsed by communities of ocean observing practitioners. This is being done both by manual sub-mission and machine-assisted web crawling. The collection is then being used as the material with which to address the second challenge: a best practice repository is being created with tech-nologies to persistently archive, systematize, expose, index, ver-sion, and cross-link collected Best Practices. As this is a multi-disciplinary and constantly evolving space, technologies, which are capable of sustainably, yet flexibly linking material across domain-specific terminologies are being deployed, as well as mechanisms for quality management and review. Efforts are being made to ensure even novice ocean observers can use the resource effectively, with little to no training.

We are inviting OES members and others to participate through contributions of Best Practices to the OceanBestPractices reposi-tory and by volunteering to be reviewers of Best Practices. For further information, please contact Jay Pearlman (jay.pearlman at ieee.org) or Pauline Simpson (psimpson at reefresearch.org)

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 633211 (AtlantOS). Funding has also been received from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No: 654310 (ODIP). Funding has also been received from the NSF Ocean Research Coordination Network under grant 1143683. In addi-tion, support by the European Research Council Advanced Investigator grant ABYSS 294757 to Antje Boetius and the HGF Infrastructure Program FRAM of the Alfred Wegener

Figure 3. Discussions of best practices for glider operations continue as the NeXOS team carries out a mission.

Figure 4. Many best practices are involved in the creation of an integrated ocean observation platform. In the photo, the

European Station for Time series in the Ocean Canary Islands (ESTOC) float is ready for release.


Institute for one of the authors (PLB) is gratefully acknowl-edged. We also acknowledge the support of IEEE, IODE, JCOMMOCG, SOCIB, U.S. IOOS, and GOOS.

ACRONYMSAtlantOS Optimizing and Enhancing the Integrated

Atlantic Ocean Observing SystemsAWI Alfred-Wegener-Institute

BP Best PracticesEMSO European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and

water-column ObservatoryEuroGOOS European Global Ocean Observing SystemGOOS Global Ocean Observing System of UNESCO/

IOC ICES International Council for the Exploration of the

SeaIEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersIOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commis-

sion of UNESCOIODE International Oceanographic Data and Infor-

mation Exchange of UNESCO/IOCIOOS U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing SystemJCOMM Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography

and Marine MeteorologyJERICO Joint European Research Infrastructure Network

for Coastal ObservatoriesOBP OceanBestPractices (Repository)ODIP Ocean Data Interoperability PlatformSAEON South African Environmental Observation

NetworkSOCIB Sistema d’observació i predicció costaner de les

Illes BalearsUNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cul-

tural OrganizationURI Universal Resource IdentifierWMO World Meteorological Organization

Figure 5. Dr. Nicole Poulton from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences aboard AE1319 cruise aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer

uses one of the older FlowCam models for data collected in August 2013. (Photo by Wayne H. Slade and courtesy of FIT).

The following two members were elected to the OES Adminis-trative Committee for a term of two years (from 2018–2019).•STEPHEN L. WOOD•JOÃO ALVES

In addition, the following member was elected to the OES Administrative Committee for a term of one year (2018).•M. A. ATMANAND

Congratulations!

STEPHEN L. WOOD (AM’01-M’01) Florida Institute of Technology

Professional Engineer—Mechan-ical Engineering, License # 58815, Florida, June 2002–Present

Formal Education:Oregon State University—

Mechanical Engineering—Ph.D. 1994 (Dissertation: “An Architec-ture for a Function Driven Mechan-ical Design Solution Library”)

University of Miami—Ocean Engineering—M.S. 1987 (Thesis: “Architecture of an Expert System for Oceanographic Mooring Design”)

University of Rhode Island—Mechanical Engineering—B.S.—1983

Appointments:04/15–Present—Department Head, Department of Ocean

Engineering and Sciences05/09–Present—Ocean Engineering Program Chair, Depart-

ment of Ocean Engineering and Sciences01/99–Present—Associate Professor—Florida Institute of

Technology College of Engineering—Department of Ocean Engineering and Sciences: Ocean Engineering, 150 West Uni-versity Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901, USA.

2016/17 IEEE-OES ADCOM Interim Board Member08/15–Present—MTS Marine Archaeology Committee

ChairA Few Publications:

•Bahr, G.S., Allen, W.H., Bernhard, P., Wood, S.L., “The Arti-ficial Memory of Mr. Polly: Memory Simulation in Databases

Newly Appointed Administrative Committee Members


& the Emergence of Knowledge,” Submitted & accepted: MIT Press, Leonardo Journal, Vol. -, Issue -, 2016.

•Wood, S., Hendricks, A., Corbet, M. “Automated Buoyancy Control System for a Remotely Operated Underwater Crawl-er,” Oceans’15 MTS/IEEE Genoa, Italy May 18–21, 2015.

•Wood, S., Cañedo, D., Le Merdy, T., “Application and Effec-tiveness of a Portable Hydrodynamic Testing Facility,” Oceans’15 MTS/IEEE Genoa, Italy May 18–21, 2015.

•Patent US 8,806,865 B2: Ocean Wave Energy Harnessing Device. Inventors: Kelly Dunn, Deric Hausmann, Stephen Wood, Aug. 19, 2014.

•Wood, S., Mierzwa, C., “State of Technology in Autonomous Underwater Gliders,” in “The State of Technology in 2013,” MTS Journal, Vol. 47, Num. 5, September/October 2013.Synergistic Activities: Development of research tools: M.S.

& Ph.D. research focused on the development of computer algorithms to support physical oceanography and mechanical engineering research, design and development.

Courses Developed and Taught at Florida Institute of Tech-nology:

OCE 1001—Introduction to Ocean Engineering (robotic and sub-sea section)

OCE 2002—Computer Applications for Ocean EngineeringOCE 3030—Fluid Mechanics/OCN 3430 Fundamental

Geophysical FluidOCE 4541—Ocean Engineering DesignOCE 4542—Ocean Engineering System Design (team &

real-life design situations)OCE 4545—HydroacousticsOCE 4561—Fundamentals of Offshore Engineering (robot-

ics & underwater technology)OCE 5903—Underwater Robotics I

JOÃO ALVES (M’09) MSc. in Electrotechnical Engineering, Con-trol and Robotics by the Technical University of Lisbon.

He has been working in under-water robotics and associated tech-nologies since 1995.

He had a key role in the develop-ment of the hardware and software architectures for the MARIUS AUV and DELFIM ASV developed at the Technical University of Lis-

bon. These were fully distributed and networked architectures including more than 30 processors in charge of the different components of the vehicles. This work was the base for his MSc. dissertation.

In 2003 he co-founded a private start-up company—Blue Edge Systems Engineering, offering services and conducting R&D activity in the maritime domain. In 2007 he took scien-tific leadership for the underwater communications activities of the EC project GREX where pioneering maritime cooperative robotics was demonstrated. In late 2009 he joined the NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC), now Centre For Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) as a scientist to work

on underwater communications. He led studies in support of establishing the first underwater communications standard and developed innovative protocols for underwater ad hoc network-ing. In 2014 he took a leadership role as Principal Scientist responsible for the underwater communications activities at CMRE. He conducted several trials as scientist in charge, lead-ing teams of several tens of people during long sea-going cam-paigns. During this period he also served as PI for different European commission projects (like MORPH and SUNRISE) and was co-general chair for the IEEE OES UComms14 and UComms16 conferences. He is an invited lecturer for the Mas-ters in Ocean Engineering offered by the University of Pisa (ITA) and a guest editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engi-neering. He currently serves as an active member of the AUVSI subcommittee for the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea, dealing with the challenging issues of adding robots to our Oceans.

M. A. ATMANAND (M’97-SM’07) obtained his B.Tech. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engi-neering from University of Calicut in 1983. He took his M.Tech. and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Tech-nology, Madras in 1985 and 1997 respectively. From 1985 to 1997 beginning, he worked in the area of fluid flow measurement and con-trol at Fluid Control Research Insti-tute, the standard laboratory for

flow in India. From 1997, he has been working at National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), in the area of deep sea technologies at various levels and currently as Scientist G. He held the position of Director, NIOT from 2009 till 2015. During his tenure as Director, he was responsible for all projects being executed by the Institute in the areas of Desalination, Ocean Energy, Deep Sea Technologies, Ocean Observations, Marine Sensors and Marine Biotechnology. He is currently involved in policy making, preparation of Deep sea mission program of the Government of India in the area of Ocean Technology to lead India as a major player internationally. He received the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Presidential Award in 2016, team Nation-al Geoscience Award 2010 from the Ministry of Mines, Gov-ernment of India, for the work on Remotely Operable Vehicle under the category of Oil and Natural Gas Exploration.

He is elected as Chair of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commis-sion (IOC) of UNESCO in 2016.

He has to his credit two patents (one Indian and one Ger-man) and more than ninety research publications included in IEEE and other international refereed journals.

He is currently an IEEE Senior Member of the Oceanic Engi-neering Society (OES), and the Instrumentation and Measurements Society (IMS). He has been active with the IEEE Madras Section as an Executive Committee member, Secretary, and Vice Chair and currently he is the Chair of that Section. He is the founding Chair


of IEEE OES in India and organised this new OES Chapter under the India Council in May 2008. He has given technical talks on “Ocean Technologies in India” as part of IEEE OES Chapters at WHOI and Scripps institute of Oceanography in 2014, and at Uni-versity of Rhode Island in 2016, which were well received.

It was under his Co-chair ship that the IEEE Symposium on Underwater Technologies was held in India in 2015 suc-cessfully. The Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

(SAVe) competition started under his leadership and has con-tinued successfully for the past 5 years. The winners in this competition have been sent to compete in the AUVSI compe-tition held annually in San Diego. He is currently one of the Associate editors of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. He is also Technical Committee Chair of Underwater Cables and Connectors.

The World Ocean Council (WOC’2017) in Halifax, CanadaDr. Ferial El-Hawary, Life Fellow IEEE

About the World Ocean Council (WOC) The World Ocean Council (WOC) is the only international, cross-sectoral alliance for private sector leadership and collaboration in sustain-ability, stewardship and science. Companies from a broad range of industries worldwide are distinguishing themselves as lead-ers in “Corporate Ocean Responsibility,” including: shipping, oil and gas, tourism, fisheries, aquaculture, mining, renewable energy, ocean technology and investments. WOC members are a part of the WOC Network including more than 34,000 ocean industry stakeholders from across the globe.

The WOC is a registered not-for-profit organization in the US and the UK/Europe.

The WOC-Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS)’ 2017 was held in Halifax, Canada, November 29–Dec. 1, 2017 and it was declared a solid success. This event brought together over 230 Ocean leaders from across the Ocean industry sectors and stakeholder communities. The summit’s program included 22 parallel sessions and panels attended by participants represent-ing 28 countries from across the World.

The following list of the Summit’s parallel sessions demonstrates the multi-disciplinary scope of the program:•Aquaculture: Advancing Sustainable Aqua-

culture in a Multi-Use Ocean•Maritime Clusters: Innovation and Collabora-

tion for Ocean Sustainable Development•Coastal Infrastructure, Extreme Weather Events,

Green Infrastructure, and Blue Carbon•Biofouling and Invasive Species: Addressing the Threat

through Industry Collaboration •Synergies in Shipping and Sustainability: International Col-

laboration on Green Shipping Programs •Ocean Energy: Scaling Up Low Carbon Energy Sources from

the Sea•The Law of the Sea: New Legally Binding Instrument on

Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction•Arctic Sustainable Development: Vessel Traffic and Maritime

Infrastructure Projections and Scenarios•Marine Sound: Tackling a Global Problem through Industry

Leadership and Collaboration•From Local Enterprise to Global Seafood Markets: Real Busi-

ness Solutions for Fishery Sustainability•Ship Strikes and Marine Mammals: Practical Solutions for

Ocean Industries•Smart Ocean-Smart Industries: Advancing Ocean Industry

Data Collection•Dark Ships: Advancing Ocean Governance and Maritime

Security•Addressing Cross-Sectoral Conflicts/Developing Synergies:

Offshore Wind Energy and FisheriesA major plenary session on “Ocean 2030: Ocean Industry Pro-

jections and the Future of the Ocean Economy”, expert members of the panel discussed the issues involved. It was generally acknowl-edged that achieving ocean economy’s long-term potential growth and job creation requires that action is taken to include ecosystem preservation in an enhanced integrated ocean management approach.

In a related plenary session, a high-level panel of senior invest-ment professionals discussed their perspectives on financing ocean sustainable development including advancing the collaboration of

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investors in identifying opportunities for financing ocean sustain-able development, identifying how the Ocean Investment Platform can best evolve as a global structure and process for facilitating and accelerating investment in ocean sustainable development.

I had the opportunity to be among this international group as an invited Panel Speaker in “The Digital Ocean” Session includ-ing Big Ocean Data and Ocean Cloud Computing: The Future of Ocean Sustainable Development. I observed from the session:•What are the status, trends and forecasts for the development

of the Digital Ocean, Big Ocean Data and the use of Cloud Computing for Ocean Sustainable Development?

•What are the benefits (economic, sustainability, maritime security, etc.) from a Digital Ocean that produces Big Ocean Data and harnesses Cloud Computing in support of Agenda 2030 and what are the challengers to achieving these benefits?

•What are the opportunities for industry leadership and collabora-tion in advancing the most beneficial progress in the Digital Ocean, Big Ocean data and Cloud Computing for Ocean Sustain-able Development—at national, regional and global scales—and what should industry do to best engage other Ocean Stakeholders? This Panel concluded that the most economical way of benefit to all is action towards sharing Ocean Data among stakeholders. I also attended some of the parallel sessions that are of interest to

me, including: “The Marine Pollution”, which was Addressing the Threat through Industry Collaboration. I learned from the session:•How can diverse Ocean industries understand and address the

shared problem of biofouling and the introduction of invasive species? For example, the (Plastic dumping in the Ocean and the use of Underwater Vehicles that can support the detection of size and location of harmful waste)

•What opportunities exist for scientists, government and indus-try to create a common research and development platform on the causes, prevention and removal of biofouling?

•What are the proposed and new regulations regarding the potential importation and spread of non-indigenous marine species and can a pan-industry platform be developed to minimize business risks of biosecurity problems?I participated in a Workshop on: “WOC Young Ocean Profes-

sionals (YOP) and MIT Solve – Identifying Innovation Challenges for Ocean Sustainability” and it was the highlight of the event by many

participants who shared their experience in dealing with issues, opportunities and challenges that YOP will have in a future requiring implementing Ocean Sustainability mandates.

These discussions were sparked by the different SOS presenta-tions and the cross-sectoral panels emphasized the unique role of WOC in bringing together the diverse Ocean Business Commu-nity (and other Stakeholders) to focus on the challenges and opportunities of Ocean Sustainable Development. Also, it was instructive to learn different perspectives of Ocean leaders around the world and exchange knowledge during the Conference.

I note that, the Conference Theme “The Ocean Sustainable Development Goal: Business Leadership and Business Oppor-tunities” and discussions truly complement our traditional MTS/IEEE-OES OCEANS Conferences which suggests future cooperation between WOC and MTS/IEEE-OES.

The main focus was on the Marine Industry and WOC Young Ocean Professionals program—a growing global network of up and coming Ocean Professionals interested in sustainable devel-opment. Mr. Paul Holthus—CEO of WOC issued this invitation to young professionals from IEEE and MTS networks to join us. I also hope to see IEEE and MTS at the 6th Sustainable Ocean Summit (Hong Kong, 14–16 November 2018), which is already shaping up to raise the bar further on international busi-ness leadership and collaboration for Ocean Sustainable Devel-opment. Yes, it is indeed a step forward and beneficial to all.

Get more information on the Website:www.oceancouncil.org https://sustainableoceansummit.org/On a Personal note: Wishing the readers Best Wishes for 2018

Dr. Ferial El-Hawary, Life Fellow IEEE, IEEE/OES–AdCom Member

[email protected]: (902) 449-5110

Panel Speakers from L. to R. Marc Fagan, CEO, EOS Data Analytics; Ferial El-Hawary, Dalhousie Univ.; Peter Mabson,

president, ExactEarth; Melissa Garren, Chief Scientist, Pelagic Data Systems; Chris Coyle, Chief Strategy, Exocetus Autonomous

Systems; and Graham Stickler, President, Beyond One Eighty.

Ferial El-Hawary


Well first of all what do I do in OES? After joining the IEEE in 2002 I stood for and was elected to the Administrative Commit-tee (AdCom) of OES for two terms between 2006 and 2011, and was re-elected from 2013 until 2018. I am also a co-opted mem-ber (from 2012) of the OES RECON (Reconnaissance) commit-tee whose remit is to select and evaluate future OCEANS ven-ues. I was recently appointed to OES Student Poster Chair, taking over from Phillippe Courmontagne (a hard act to follow!) and have been asked to stand on the Joint OCEANS Advisory Board (JOAB). I was elevated to Senior Membership of IEEE in 2005.

Perhaps my best claim to fame (notoriety) within OES cir-cles is twice acting as General Chair of the OCEANS confer-ence—Aberdeen’07 and Aberdeen’17. Why do it twice you might ask? Good question—it is well documented that after Aberdeen’07 I said “never again”, then the minute my back was turned…. there I was doing it again. But this time…. NEVER AGAIN! However, I should point out that on reflection chairing an OCEANS conference is a very worthwhile, enjoy-able and challenging (although a bit frantic) experience. I was particularly proud to have been able to bring both these confer-ences to Scotland for the benefit of the subsea engineering community in Aberdeen and to the local community in general. It is significant that both OCEANS conferences that have come to the UK were held in Aberdeen. Both meetings were hailed by delegates, patrons and exhibitors as resounding successes.

So when I’m not doing OCEANS, what is my real job? I am Emeritus Professor of Optical Engineering at the University of Aberdeen and I guess from a professional point-of-view, it is my work on the development of optical holography and its application to subsea imaging, and in particular to the imaging

and analysis of marine plankton, that is most relevant to readers of the Beacon. My optical engineering research group in the School of Engineering has developed several subsea holo-graphic cameras, ranging from the classical analogue HoloCamto two radically new digital “holocameras”, eHoloCam and eHoloCam2; they were variously deployed in Loch Etive (west Scotland), the North Sea, the Faroes channel and, most recent-ly, in the Okinawa Trough (off Japan).

The first of these, HoloCam, was designed to record simulta-neous in-line and off-axis holograms of large sampling volumes (3,500 cm3 and 50,000 cm3 respectively) on holographic photo-plates so that large opaque organisms and smaller semi-trans-parent organisms could be captured in situ. HoloCam was deployed in Loch Etive on the west of Scotland to a depth of

Who’s who in the OES and what they do….outside OES

John Watson, OES Student Poster Chair, OES AdCom Member, JOAB Member

Figure 1. John opening the MTS/IEEE OCEANS’17 Aberdeen Conference.

Figure 2. Working on HoloCam prior to its launch in Loch Etive.

Figure 3. HoloCam in the 2002 edition of the Guinness book of World Records!


100 m. However, this was a very large and heavy instrument (2.4 m long x 1 m diameter and weighing 2 tonnes) and not easy to deploy from a vessel; and it wasn’t long before we turned to the development of smaller more user-friendly holocam-eras based on digital recording of the holograms.

By replacing the photoplate with an electronic sensor, holograms can be recorded and stored in a computer and replayed by numerical simulation of the propagating reference wave with-out the need for chemical processing of the holograms and complex labo-ratory replay facilities. Holographic videos could also be recorded. How-ever, because of the limited pixel size (down to 3 µm), which is a factor of 100 bigger than the grain size of holo-graphic photofilm, digital holography is generally deployed in the in-line mode. Our holocameras utilise a col-limated (parallel) illumination beam to record water-column volumes of up to 40 cm3 and are able to capture the larger and sparser zooplankton species at depth. eHoloCam was suc-cessfully operated to a depth of 450 m in the North Sea during 2005/06.

We constructed a second digital camera eHoloCam2, with a new laser, control electronics and subsea housings, which was deployed in the Okinawa Trough, Japan, to 1,000 m depth in September 2017. This was car-ried out in conjunction with The Insti-tute of Industrial Science (IIS) of the University of Tokyo in September 2017.

Although technically retired from my University position, our work on subsea digital holography continues and I find myself drifting in to the lab two or three times a week. But when I’m not doing that my wife Joyce and I retreat to our

seaside cottage on the Isle of Arran on the west coast of Scot-land as often as possible; but our children and 10 grandchildren usually find us quite easily! What else? Hill walking—which I don’t do enough of! Indulging in Scotland’s national drink—which I do too much of! Acoustic guitar playing—of which I should practice more—and photography.

Figure 4. eHoloCam (showing beam path) alongside a reconstructed image of a calanoid copepod recorded in the North Sea.

Figure 5. Our cottage in Arran and a view along the beach.


Upcoming OES Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events

SAUVC2018, Singapore, March 9–12http://www.ieeeoes.org/pubs/newsletters/oes/html/fall17/ SAUVC2018.html

OTC ASIA 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 20–23http://2018.otcasia.org/

OTC 2018, Houston, TX, April 30–May 3http://2018.otcnet.org/

OCEANS 2018 Kobe/Techno-Ocean 2018, Kobe, Japan, May 28–31http://www.oceans18mtsieeekobe.org/

BALTIC, Klaipèda, Lithuania, June 12–15https://www.aconf.org/conf_130806.html

ISIE2018, Cairns, Australia, June 12–15http://www.ieee-isie2018.org/

OSES2018, Ningbo, China, July 4–6https://www.osessociety.com/oses2018

UComms 2018, Lerici, Italy, August 28–30http://www.ucomms.net

SeaTech Week, Brest, France, October 8–12http://www.seatechweek.eu

OCEANS 2018 Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA, October 22–25http://charleston18.oceansconference.org/

ATC2018, Houston, TX, November 5–7http://www.otcnet.org/

AUV2018, Porto, Portugal, November 6–9http://auv2018.lsts.pt/

CanadaAndrew James BatesBradley J BuckhamChris CarpenterKeifer EdelmayerEthan GlenwrightPeter LambertKeira LaneColin RossLyden Matthew Carvalhal SmithProteus Serralbo Virk

ChinaTaku Osoguchi IwakiNing WangXuebo Zhang

FranceJerome I. Mars

GermanyAndreas Czerniak

Hong KongAdrian ChanKai Sum ChanHiu Fung CheungYu Tam CheungLee LauTak Chiu Wong

HungaryMiklos Kozlovszky

IndiaTarun K ChandrayadulaArun GoelDeepak KumarShyam Kumar Madhusud-hanaNilanjan SahaD Swain

IndonesiaZaenab Muslimin

ItalyEis AnnaviniMaria Greco

JapanJonghyun AhnShinji KatoMasato KawaiTadatsugi OkazakiJun Yamabayashi

Korea (South)Jeong Eon Moon

MalaysiaAddie IrawanAhmad Anas Yusof

NetherlandsPeter Rampen

PakistanRabia Qadar

PortugalBruno Mateus Ferreira

SingaporeYu Herng Tan

SpainAdriano Camps

TaiwanMin-Kang Chao

TunisiaOssama Hammami

TurkeyBaris Gurcan Hakanoglu

UkraineAnatolii A Lyubitskii

USASteven J BarnettJames Gladen BellinghamChanelle CadotJayne F Cerone

Charles G ChristianWilliam B CollinsRichard CrossFrank J DaigreKyle David DewitteThomas DillenBrian DowtinWilliam J EmeryErich F FriendDaniel W GlassJohn D HawkinsonHunter Vale HodgeCorey M KelkenbergBryan LawlessKatrina LegurskyXiaorui LiuDaniel John McgrawJohn D PinezichZhijun QiaoKimberly RadzelovageAlexander Cody RayRichard J RikoskiMichael Petelle SchererTamara Veronica SobersMatthew I SteigerXiong Yu

Welcome New and Reinstated Members


I was selected as the Student Activities Commit-tee Chair in January of 2018. I am an elected member of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Soci-ety (OES) Administrative Committee (AdCom) and work with the U.S. Geological Survey at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi where I manage the hydraulics laboratory and evaluate new instrumentation.

In 2016 I began volunteering with IEEE OES as the liaison to Women in Engineering and have since been elected to AdCom where I have been active in the Membership Development and Pro-motion & Outreach committees.

As chair of the student activities committee, I can put my interest in mentoring students and young professionals to good use. My involvement in creating a more prominent social media presence for OES lends itself to encouraging students and young professionals to be more active in the society.

I hope to encourage more women, students and young pro-fessionals to follow my example and build their careers through volunteering with OES. Programs like the student poster

competition, OCEANS student social, student travel scholarships and the student council, help students to make contacts, build their resumes, and build their confidence, which ultimately will lead to their success.

I would like to see more opportunities cre-ated for students to publish through the OES JOE, Beacon and Earthzine. I would also like to see more opportunities for students and Young Professionals to network and get involved at OCEANS conferences. One way to do this would be to organize a career forum, mentor-ship workshop and job fair at OCEANS. OES is working to increase the number of student

branch chapters at universities with ocean related programs and to provide tools that facilitate student chapter participa-tion and outreach.

I have lots of ideas and I will do my best to work with the Executive and Administrative committees to increase opportu-nities for students. If you would like to get more involved in the society, please contact me at [email protected].

From the Student Activities Chair

Brandy Armstrong

Brandy Armstrong, summer of 2017.

passport photo of the nominee, plus a brief (not to exceed one page) OES vision and action statement by the nominee.

Another relatively simple way to become involved (a few hours of your time) is to volunteer to review abstracts of papers submitted for presentation at OCEANS conferences, or at Off-shore Technology Conferences (OTC Houston, OTC Asia, OTC Brazil, ATC). If you feel so inclined, do offer your ser-vices to the Vice President for OCEANS ([email protected]) and the Chair of the OES OTC Committee ([email protected]).

If you are looking for more challenging assignments with higher networking potential (a few weeks of your time in aggregate), contact the Vice President for Workshops and Sym-posia ([email protected]) and/or the Vice Presi-dent for Technical Activities ([email protected]) to learn about opportunities to help organize and run OES events.

On behalf of OES, I would like to thank all of you who have generously donated your time and talents to help run the Soci-ety. Special thanks go to:•N. Ross Chapman who has served as Editor in Chief of the

Journal of Oceanic Engineering (10–2012 to 12–2017) and now serves as Chair of the OES Fellow Evaluation Committee;

•Shahriar Negahdaripour, who has served as Chair of OES the Fellow Evaluation Committee for the past five years;

•Albert (Sandy) Williams III, who served as Vice President for Conference Development (2014-2017) and continues to serve as co-Chair of the Joint OCEANS Administrative Board (JOAB);

•William Kirkwood, who served as OES Treasurer (2014–2017) and continues to serve as Assistant to the President while OES faces external budgetary challenges;

•Robert Wernli, who served as Vice President for Professional Activities (2014-2017) and continues to serve as co-editor of the OES Beacon newsletter.

•Robert Bannon, Ferial El Hawary, Barbara Fletcher, Stephen M. Holt, Harumi Sugimatsu, and Stephen Wood, the six AdCom members whose term ended in 2017.Welcome aboard to the new Editor in Chief of the Journal,

Mandar Chitre; the new OES Treasurer, Elizabeth Creed; the new Vice President of Professional Activities, James S. Collins; the new Vice President for Workshops and Symposia, Philippe Courmontagne; the three 2017 AdCom candidates appointed to replace the newly elected ExCom members above: João Alves, M. Atmanand, and Stephen Wood; and the 2018–2020 AdCom class with some new and some returning members: Gerardo Acosta, Jean-Pierre Hermand, William Kirkwood, Venugopal-an Pallayil, Harumi Sugimatsu, and Robert Wernli.

Christian de Moustier

From the President (continued from page 3)


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Co-Editors-in-Chief, OES BEACONHARUMI SUGIMATSUUniversity of [email protected] WERNLIFirst Centurion [email protected]

Editor, OES e-newsletterTOSHIHIRO MAKIUniversity of [email protected]

WebmasterSTEVE [email protected]

Student ActivitiesBRANDY [email protected]

Student Branch Chapter (SBC) Support ProgramJIM [email protected]

Membership DevelopmentJIM [email protected]

Fellow Evaluating CommitteeN. ROSS [email protected]

Women in EngineeringBRANDY [email protected]

Young ProfessionalFRÉDÉRIC MAUSSANGfrederic.maussang@ telecom-bretagne.eu

Technology CommitteeMALCOLM [email protected]

Reconnaissance Committee JAMES T. [email protected]

Joint OCEANS Advisory Board (JOAB)ALBERT (Sandy) J. WILLIAMS IIIWoods Hole Oceanographic [email protected]

Awards, NominationsRENÉ [email protected]

IEEE USA R&D PolicyJIM [email protected]

Chapter CoordinatorGERARDO G. [email protected]

Professional Activities Committees for Engineers (PACE)JIM [email protected]

CHAPTER CHAIRS

REGION 1-6, USAPROVIDENCEAlbert J. (Sandy) Williams [email protected] James G. [email protected] [email protected] DIEGOKaren Dubey [email protected]

SEATTLEGerald (Skip) [email protected] [email protected]

REGION 7, CANADACANADIAN ATLANTICFerial E. [email protected] & LABRADORNeil [email protected] Yifeng Zhou [email protected] Georges Fourniergeorges.fournier@drdc-rddc.gc.caTORONTOOPENVANCOUVERSerdar [email protected] N. Ross [email protected]

REGION 8, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST & AFRICAFRANCEPhilippe [email protected] [email protected] Anibal [email protected]

SPAINJoaquin del Rio Fernandez [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

REGION 9, SOUTH AMERICAARGENTINAAndrés [email protected]

REGION 10, ASIA & PACIFICAUSTRALIAMal [email protected] R. (Venkat) [email protected] Katsuyoshi [email protected] SOUTH WALESEric [email protected] [email protected] Rizal [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] C. Chiu [email protected]

Brian BinghamBrad BuckhamNicholas ChotirosTory CobbBrandon CochenourNuno CruzLee CulverRoee DiamantBrendan EnglotKenneth Foote

Eric GillJoao GomesMerrick HallerMichael HayesElizabeth MaguliaToshihiro MakiEliza MichaloupoulouAndrey MorozovBarbara NicolasCostas Pelekanakis

John PotterGopu PottyMike RichardsonRoland RomeiserTetjana RossTorstein SæbøDick SimonsJoao de SousaMilica StojanovicKen Takagi

Harris TsimenidisAndrea TruccoKarl von EllenriederKathleen WageJohn WatsonWen XuFumin ZhangRosa Zheng

JOURNAL ASSOCIATE EDITORS

ACOUSTICS AND SIGNAL PROCESSINGEnvironmental AcousticsTIMOTHY F. [email protected] Signal and Image ProcessingJEAN-PIERRE [email protected] AcousticsKENNETH G. [email protected] Communication, Navigation, and PositioningMILICA [email protected]

GEAR, INSTRUMENTS, AND VEHICLESEnvironmental TechnologyTORU [email protected] TechnologyWILLIAM [email protected] Cables and ConnectorsM. A. [email protected] Maritime Vehicles and SubmersiblesWILLIAM KILKWOOD [email protected]

DATA AND INFORMATIONInformation Processing and Data Fusion

WILLIAM PORTONumerical Modeling, Simulation and Data VisualizationGOPU [email protected] D. [email protected]

OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTSAirborne/Spaceborne Ocean Remote SensingDAVID E. WEISSMANCurrent, Wave, and Turbulence Mea-surementsBRUCE MAGNELLOceanographic Instrumentation, Navigation, and Positioning

P. R. SASEENDRAN [email protected]@ymail.comSubsea Optics and VisionMARCO LANZAFORTA

POLICY AND GLOBAL CONCERNSEnvironment and Observation SystemsJAY S. [email protected] EnergyVACANTOcean Policy and EducationDOUGLAS [email protected]

TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE CHAIRS

In addition to the regular technical topics, Local Technical addition to the regular technical topics, Local Technical Sessions will include: Enhancing Coastal Resiliency with New Technologies and Community Design Maritime and Port Logistics, Resilience and Security in an Era of Ever-Bigger

Ships, Deeper Ports, Increased Commerce, and Stronger Storms Building Coastal Resilience In The Face Of Rising Seas and Intense Storms Tools and Technologies for Better Assessing Ocean, Community and Human

Health Social Challenges Intensified with a Changing Climate Educating a Workforce Ready for Future Technologies Special Sessions:

• Measuring and growing your Blue Tech Economy • Tsunami Warning Systems

Charleston Area Convention Center | October 22–25, 2018 | Charleston, South Carolina

Healthy Oceans, Resilient Communities, Robust Commerce... Strong Nations

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OCEANS 2018 Charleston is the annual joint conference of MTS and IEEE, and will be held October 22-

25, 2018. The theme – Healthy Oceans, Resilient Communities, Robust Commerce... Strong Nations – will draw strongly on local and regional to international issues of interest, including how science and technology must inform and enable the challenges of a 21st Century where environment, society, and economics are highly interconnected.

Important Dates:

January 5: Call for Technical Abstracts Opens April 23: Call for Tutorials Opens

April 18: Abstract submission Due June 5: Notification to Authors

June 12: Student poster notifications June 25: Tutorial Proposals Due

July 23: Tutorial Reviews Due July 24: Tutorial notifications to Presenters

July 31: Final paper submission Due

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